I’ve been debating. “Which book should I recommend first?”I’ll begin with the book that started it all, Richard Peck’s A Long Way from Chicago (Dial, 1998). This is the first book I felt compelled to share with *everyone.* Yes, it won the Newbery Honor. Yes, Richard Peck is an incredible writer. But it was the sheer force of the character of Grandma Dowdel that had me handing a copy to my not-so-warm-and-fuzzy, “I read Louis L’Amour, Tom Clancy, and W.E.B. Griffin” father.And he loved it. He even read the sequel, “A Year Down Yonder,” …

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